Giants

Giants
by Charles DeLoach
This isn't some Lord of the Rings fantasy piece. An ex-journalist with no agenda except mere fascination undertook a comprehensive combing of history books for actual accounts of giants over the ages.

The book style is A to Z reference format, but I used the Chronological Index in the back to follow their timeline--much easier. Biblical giantry is particularly well-accounted, though he also records many giants outside that era.

While most is recorded history, DeLoach also includes a slight bit of his own commentary. His "Origin of the Giants" theory is a bit far-fetched and over-extended in my opinion, but his take on "Graveyards of the Giants" is well-founded. He writes:

"Since they are people, even historians are sometimes given to exaggeration, and a few now and then even to outright lying. So can we really believe that some giants stood fourteen, seventeen, or even twenty-two feet tall? We can, for in addition to the historians' mostly reliable accounts, we have from the graveyards of the giants irrefutable evidence that some of that tremendous size once lived on earth."

Fascinating. Maybe David's Goliath story wasn't just a story after all.

For the person into historical giants, this is by far the best (and possibly only) book of its kind. Well worth reading.


GRADE:
_ B+ _ _ _
Comprehensive, but could've used a tidier format.